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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Folders: I don't like 'em

Submitted by StupidLogin on September 29, 2011 - 5:52pm

I know it's a bit selfish, but I don't like opening up my thumb drive and seeing a bunch of folders. Then clicking on said folders. Then clicking on the application.

Is there any way to lift the program from the folder, hide the folder, and still have it work?

Please don't suggest creating a shortcut; I have already tried this multiple times and it works for a week or two but is then made "invalid" (No idea why).

PAL problem (Popman)

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Submitted by Simeon on September 24, 2011 - 8:31am

Popman (smal email client) has support for a "bigger" email client like Thunderbird. The path to that app is stored in an ini file as EmailClient=C:\PortableApps\ThunderbirdPortable\ThunderbirdPortable.exe.
Adding support for portability is easy (replace the drive letter). But adding support for path portability is hard because %PAL:PartialPath% doesnt work as it isnt the apps path that is needed but the path to Thunderbird Portable.

Does anyone know a fix for this?

launcher should create an exe to start two programs

Submitted by uta on September 22, 2011 - 3:20pm

Hi cracks,

I have a program i try to make portable which always needs another program. so i always have to start two portableapps. I thougt it would be a good idea to integrate both programms in one portableapp. More precisely in two app\appname dirs and tell the launcher's ini programexecutable to refer to two exe-files (i tried two lines). That does not work.

can't find ....data\settings\nsisconf.nsh during launchergenerator

Submitted by Freewilly3d on September 22, 2011 - 12:57pm

trying to follow some instructions I found to make evernote portable. I downloaded the 2.xx versions and I'm getting an error when I run the launchgenerator !include: could not find" x:\portableapps\nsisportable\app\nsis\..\..\data\settings\nsisconf.nsh Any suggestions?

Thanks

Portable Apps Creator 99 problem

Submitted by Ekevb on September 21, 2011 - 9:20am

After using the latest PortableAppsCreater to package DVDSlideshowGUI the final
product DVDslideshowGUIPortable.exe (my naming) fails with the following error:
Windows cannot find "I:\DVDSlideshowGUI\I:\DVDSlideshowGUI\DVDslideshowGUI.exe".

Packaging other programs give the same type of error.

I suppose that step "Shortcutinformation" is the cause of this problem.

Here are 2 fields:
1. Get location of program to run:
I entered "I:\DVDSlideshowGUI\DVDslideshowGUI.exe" because I could NOT enter a path, but had to enter a file.
2. Get the location for the launcher:

Saving REG_MULTI_SZ values via custom code.

Submitted by scriptdaemon on September 15, 2011 - 10:18pm

CppCheck saves application paths in the registry as a REG_MULTI_SZ, which is saved to the .reg file in hex.

Example line from CppCheck.reg file (saved from launcher):

"Application paths"=hex(7):22,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,\
  00,61,00,6d,00,20,00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,20,00,28,00,78,00,38,00,\
  36,00,29,00,5c,00,4e,00,6f,00,74,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,64,00,2b,00,2b,00,5c,\
  00,6e,00,6f,00,74,00,65,00,70,00,61,00,64,00,2b,00,2b,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,\
  65,00,22,00,00,00,00,00

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